Wake Up And Dream [jhc]

Hollywood, 1940. It s the Golden Age of the Feelies. All one-time actor and unlicensed matrimonial private eye Clark Gable has to do is impersonate a wealthy scriptwriter for a few hours, and sign the contract for the biopic of the inventor of a device which has changed entertainment forever. What could go wrong? Already, he s seeing ghosts but that s nothing unusual. Europe is devastated by war and America is sleep-walking into Fascism but what s that got to do with him? By turns wry and romantic, but always gripping, multi-award winning writer Ian R MacLeod s latest novel is a dazzling collision of science, fantasy and history. Like the feelies themselves, Wake Up and Dream is film noir with Technicolor wraiths.